2009/4/30 Mehdi E <[email protected]>: > Hi Philip, > > I am also using moblin alpha2 in an eeePc 1000H. The gray screen you have > does not appear for me, and moblin has fully booted in 25 seconds (alpha 1 > was a bit faster, around 20 seconds in my case). > > I am also newbie so I can't tell you about the cause of your problem, you > should maybe try to reinstall it. > > I think that I am facing the same problem than you when trying to update the > system through graphical interface. Did not do it with command since I did > not know the code to use. > > As a newbie, I agree that a "get started" section is somehow missing. I am > ok to contribute to it, share what I am learning, which moblin project > should I join to do so ? > > Also, can I bother people with moblin-related newbie questions at this > mailing list ? > > If yes, here is my first question, really basic but I couldn't find the > information : where can I find a list of all the applications installed in > moblin 2 ? It may exist in the website but I did not find it.
You can use below command to list all packages installed in your system. # rpm -qa Regards, Axel > > Cheers, > > alef > > > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Philipp B. Koch <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Kan-I Jyo schrieb: >> >> I am by no means an expert, but in my personal experience, >> there are usually several ways to get your questions answered. >> >> 1. The 'man' command. It provides some basic but useful instructions >> about the command you are using. You may have already known >> this. :) >> >> 2. Major distribution's forum. Fedora and Ubuntu's forums might be a >> good start. >> >> 3. Go to specific mailing list regarding to your software if you have a >> much detailed description about your questions. Information like >> the version of kernel, software, and hardware you are currently using. >> >> >> Hello Kan-I (<-- is that your first name :-), >> thanks for your reply and sorry for getting back so late. >> I think I was way too unspecific, sorry for that. My main question is >> directly related to Moblin. I am using >> "2.6.29.rc7-40.1.moblin2-netbook" (or at least that's what GRUB tells >> me) which I downloaded from the Moblin site, used UNetbootin to boot it >> from USB stick and installed it to my harddrive. I am using an EeePC >> 1000H (harddrive, not solid state; 2 GB RAM) in a dual boot with >> Windows XP (via GRUB 0.97). >> The Moblin start-up process goes like this: >> 0:00 min Select to boot Moblin in GRUB >> 0:14 min Start screen (grey mouse symbol) appears >> 0:17 min Start screen disappears; only a plain grey screen is to be >> seen >> 0:46 min Plain grey screen disappears, desktop appears, Moblin is >> loaded >> So, the start-up until start-screen goes pretty fast, but that >> "grey-screen-period" of about 29 seconds makes me wonder: Can I do >> something to avoid this long "pause" (what ever happens "behind the >> scenes"?). I understand that Moblin is supposed to boot fast, and >> that's what it does on my machine, given I could get rid of that >> inactivity or whatever-is-happening-phase with that plain grey screen. >> My second question is: I cannot update Moblin, because doing so by Menu >> with "Update system" shows me the number and details of the updates, >> but would not let me install them (nothing happens when I click the >> install button). I tried doing it on the terminal using "sudo yum >> update", but all I get is a really long list with packages and some >> errors about missing stuff... >> Again, sorry for being unspecific in the beginning, and thanks for any >> help! >> Best regards, Philipp >> PS. I understand that Moblin is currently still alpha and thus most >> probably not for a more end-user-type of guy like me; so if the things >> I'm trying to do are too complicated, please let me know and I'll wipe >> Moblin and wait until it has advanced more... >> _______________________________________________ >> Moblin dev Mailing List >> [email protected] >> >> To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: >> https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or your user account on >> http://moblin.org once logged in. >> >> For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: >> http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists >> > _______________________________________________ > Moblin dev Mailing List > [email protected] > > To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: > https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or your user account on > http://moblin.org once logged in. > > For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: > http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists > _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
